Improved shifting-rail for carriage-seats



@tutti @wird GASPAR DISSE, OF WEST UNION, OHIO.

Letters Patent No. 101,986, dated April 19, 187 Q; antelatell April 4,1870.

The Schedule referred to in these Lettera Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, GASPAR DIssER, of WestUnion, inthe county of Adams and State of Ohio, have invented a new andimproved Shifting-Rail for Oarriage-Seats; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, whichwill enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part of thisspecification, in whichl Y j Figurel represents aside view of acarriage-seat provided with my improved shifting-rail;

Figure 2 is a plan or top view, partly in section, of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a new device vfor securing the carriage-seatrail-fastening, and consists in an inrproved construction of the same,as hereinafter described.

Ain the drawing represents the carriage-seat.

'From each of its sides projects a slotted ear, a, and from its backproject, two notched plates or lugs, b b, as shown. These ears and lugsare Ithe outer ends of metallic bands or straps that are secured to theseat.

B is the shifting-rail. It is made of suitable form, and the two hooks,c c, project from its rear bar, said hooks engaging into the notchedplates b, so that their shanks fit into the notches of said plates.

From the front part of the rail are suspended two swivel-pins, d d,which maybe screwed into the rail or simply swiveled, as may be desired.

From .the lower end of each pin d projects an arm, e`.

When this arm is turned forward, as in the lower part of fig. 1, it willbe directly under the slot of a plate, a, and will allow the attachmentor removal of the rail.

.Vhen the pins d are fitted through the ears a, their arms, e, areturned .,hackward, and will then prevent thc removal of the rail. i Theyare locked. in this position by making the plates a thicker' where theyare not slotted, to clamp the arms e, as indicated in iig. 1.

When the rail is t.) be taken oif, the arms e are swung forward so as tobe directly under the slots of a. The front part of the rail is thenraised out of the plates a, and, nally, the rail is pushed back, toliberate the hooks c from the plates b.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isf,- A

The arms e e, formed rigidly on the lower ends of the swiveled pins d d,and adapted to be looked by friction with the inclined under surf'acesofthe platesa a, and to pass through the slots in said, plates for .thepurpose of detaching the front portion of the rail B of thecarriage-seat A, as set forth.

W'tuesses: GASPAR DISSER.

JA'MEs L. Conrnnr.,

N. D. BnANso'N.

